Sambo – thanks, you’re most kind.

William Joseph Simmons was a professing Christian, leader of a democratic organisation and lead free people, but people were quick to condemn him. Yet the same people romanticized such “freedom fighters” as Dr. King and Malcolm X… I guess those people were pathetic.

I suppose too, people who Condemn Tiberius, Nero and other members of the Julio-Claudian house whilst romanticizing “freedom fighters” of that time were also pathetic.

But none of this “is on the same scale”, right?

I’m romantic but I don’t romanticize about any person or any place, not even Cuba. To risk sounding presumptuous I actually do know something about it, something more than its politics.

I am not a communist, neither do I know much about political stuff to even try to talk about it. When I said Cuba was cool, basically I was trying to say that I liked Cuba.

Anabelle Tory – so the reason Cuba and its people suffer is because of foreign sanctions? Surely you mean American economic sanctions, since Europe has no problems importing Cuban sugar.

Give me a break. There’s another country with a powerful hostile neighbour that has imposed an economic blockade and continually threatens to invade it – and Taiwan is doing ok.

Hey, Castro’s not bad, when compared to his most of his contemporaries. He’s done a lot of good for his people (ie free education, good healthcare etc).

But he also did a lot of harm – ie let the Commies screw his country over, and repress his people.

The people of Cuba are not free. Political dissent is stamped upon time and time again – and the govt doesn’t hide the fact. Every now and then they round up all those vocal opponents and throw them into jail on some trumped up charges.

That’s why Cuba keeps on making the headlines with organisations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, etc.

There’s a reason why thousands still flee from Cuba to the USA each year.

Strange that people are so quick to condemn George Bush, a professing Christian, and leader of a democratic nation, whose people are (mostly) free.

Yet the same people romanticize such “freedom fighters” as Che Guevera and Castro…

It’s a bit pathetic really.

It comes across to me that you see that democracy is the only right way to govern a country (rather some sort of vaguely democratic vaguely republic type system). I know I am wrong in this, so please correct me. As I have said before, it is simply the safest and least prone to corrupt use by those in power.